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Quote:Roots Bistro, a vegetarian-friendly restaurant on Lower Westheimer, ran the following sign on its marquee this weekend: "Beer should be like violence: domestic." Although a manager would later claim the sign was only up for 10 minutes, it immediately sparked outrage across the Internet, on Twitter and on Facebook.

"Shame on you for that sign," wrote Elizabeth Hilts on Roots Bistro's Facebook page in only one of a flood of comments. "Shame, shame, shame."

Above her on the restaurant's Facebook page, Stephen Madden had written: "Recommendation: Take the sign down, apologize and contact HAWC for badly needed training on the horrors of domestic violence."

When contacted about the sign and its intentions, a manager on duty who identified himself as Kenneth offered the following explanation: "That sign is not up now. It was up literally for 10 minutes and it was pulled down."

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/201...olence.php

Post: #2

Fuck all this "sensitivity training". People need "sense of humor" training.

Post: #3

(04-14-2013 06:28 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote:  Fuck all this "sensitivity training". People need "sense of humor" training.

Meanwhile 30 million views (and counting) goes to a bunch of fags throwing salad around.


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The sign is really awful.

It's awful because I've already noticed White Knights in the linked Austin paper (metaphorically) standing on rooftops, thumping their chests and shrieking "We won't eat there!!"

How much you wanna bet each and everyone of these musical hipster White Knights owns a copy of that fab little 1976 LP called "Ramones" that contains a song whose refrain goes "You're a loudmouth baby/you better shut it up/I'm gonna beat you up." That song comes after "Beat on the Brat," which was also directed at a female.

Bet they also own a copy of "The Velvet Underground and Nico" where in the song "There She Goes Again," Lou Reed's solution to keep a woman from getting out of hand is "You better hit her." I mention both these albums because they're considered "seminal" in the music community, much of which is now based in Austin.

Is it too late to send Dee Dee and Lou to sensitivity training?

Post: #5

People really need to lighten the fuck up.

Post: #6

You can read the Facebook comments for the story on their page
https://www.facebook.com/HoustonPress

Quote:It's also so refreshing to see all of the men on here who are sticking up for this "joke". It makes me feel really safe as a woman in Houston.

Post: #7

(04-14-2013 08:09 PM)houston Wrote:  You can read the Facebook comments for the story on their page
https://www.facebook.com/HoustonPress

Quote:It's also so refreshing to see all of the men on here who are sticking up for this "joke". It makes me feel really safe as a woman in Houston.

Post: #8

Fat, ugly women with nothing better to do with their lives but sit on the internet and get offended by something they see on a website that in no way directly affects them starring in "getting offended by something they see on a website that in no way directly affects them" shocker.

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I would be willing to wager money that the majority of the women who get offended by these types of things have never actually been a victim of DV or rape or anything like that. It's really similar to the situations when the people who get most offended by black/Mexican jokes are uppity white people. All they are is self-righteous cunts who like to feel morally superior to people with differing points of view. I guess they've been spoonfed this victim mentality their whole lives and they know they've never actually been victims of anything (besides being ugly) so they try to latch on to something like this and attempt to speak for actual victims. They want to be a part of the victim sisterhood, kind of like when someone dies and all of a sudden everyone was that person's best friend.

I'd bet anything that the cunt who heckled Daniel Tosh by saying "Actually rape is never funny" had never been raped. She just wanted to feel like a victim. My guess is that people who have actually been victims of rape or DV or whatever would just get kind of sad and not say anything when someone made a joke about something like that.

I've had friends kill themselves, die from seizures, die from cancer and die in car accidents and people joke about those things all the time. I don't find those jokes that funny anymore, but I understand why people think they're funny and nobody is making those jokes to specifically hurt me.

Post: #10

I DISAGREE SIRS.

BEER SHOULD BE LIKE HOOKERS, IMPORTED.

Post: #11

get it because it's sex trafficking

Post: #12

(04-14-2013 09:37 PM)Only One Man Wrote:  I would be willing to wager money that the majority of the women who get offended by these types of things have never actually been a victim of DV or rape or anything like that. It's really similar to the situations when the people who get most offended by black/Mexican jokes are uppity white people. All they are is self-righteous cunts who like to feel morally superior to people with differing points of view. I guess they've been spoonfed this victim mentality their whole lives and they know they've never actually been victims of anything (besides being ugly) so they try to latch on to something like this and attempt to speak for actual victims. They want to be a part of the victim sisterhood, kind of like when someone dies and all of a sudden everyone was that person's best friend.

I'd bet anything that the cunt who heckled Daniel Tosh by saying "Actually rape is never funny" had never been raped. She just wanted to feel like a victim. My guess is that people who have actually been victims of rape or DV or whatever would just get kind of sad and not say anything when someone made a joke about something like that.

I've had friends kill themselves, die from seizures, die from cancer and die in car accidents and people joke about those things all the time. I don't find those jokes that funny anymore, but I understand why people think they're funny and nobody is making those jokes to specifically hurt me.

Excellent points, all. If you watch old movies, it was always sex women got offended about in the old days ("Well I never!!"). Now that we've taken the taboos away from sex, women need to find something so they can feel "indignant," so every other issue becomes a calamity to them, even a stupid restaurant sign. I'm convinced that it's in the nature of most women to spend their lives in a constant state of being offended, just like it's in the nature of most men to enjoy crude humor.

And if anyone from Jezebel is reading: This is #1004 on the list why WOMEN ARE NOT FUNNY!!!!

Post: #13

(04-14-2013 08:09 PM)houston Wrote:  You can read the Facebook comments for the story on their page
https://www.facebook.com/HoustonPress

Quote:It's also so refreshing to see all of the men on here who are sticking up for this "joke". It makes me feel really safe as a woman in Houston.